CNN/Jeremy Diamond/04-25-17
Less than a week before the federal government is scheduled to shut down absent a funding bill, the White House’s battle lines remain fuzzy.
…Hours after Trump touted the importance of building a wall, a White House official signaled later Monday that the President won’t insist on that funding in a spending bill to keep the government running past Friday. The official said that even some funding for “border security” could satisfy the President at this point, with the expectation that wall funding would come in future spending bill negotiations.
